Why isn't the national media at least mentioning these data that were gathered and published by the well respected Pew Research Center? Of course that's just a rhetorical question, we all know why.
1 posted on
11/10/2013 10:14:59 PM PST by
epow
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3 posted on
11/10/2013 10:33:08 PM PST by
TigersEye
(Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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People who are determined to end their own lives will use whatever means that are readily available to accomplish that end. If guns were to be somehow eliminated from the list of ways to kill one’s self, which is impossible of course, suicidal individuals would then simply use some other means that would still be available in order to accomplish their demise. For me the most surprising statistic mentioned in the article is that even in today’s US where guns are readily available to the great majority of American people far less than 1/2 of all homicides are committed with firearms of any type.
4 posted on
11/10/2013 10:55:34 PM PST by
epow
( God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.)
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The Left will take this study and say guns need to be banned to prevent gun suicides
7 posted on
11/10/2013 11:29:50 PM PST by
AlmaKing
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I had an argument with a lib about this recently. Looking at the FBI statistics, the percentage of the population using a firearm to commit suicide has remained a constant 20% since the 80’s despite the rise and fall of other gun crimes during that time. So yes, using the “increasing use of guns for suicide”, he recommended more gun restrictions.
8 posted on
11/11/2013 2:26:22 AM PST by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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I am completely pro-gun. But I have also known 6 people that have committed suicide by firearms, 5 men, one woman. None were what I would have considered to be “gun people”. they were mostly casual gun owners, just one or two guns in their home. One took his life because of debilitating illness, 3 or 4 from depression, realizing things had taken a bad turning in their lives (drug addiction, business failure, divorce). The woman's suicide was the most strange. I talked to her on the phone just a week before she died, and sounded up-beat and fine. Another person who knew her much better than me said that she had a very complicated life. Still, nobody could figure that one out. Some peoples lives are so painful it doesn’t matter what they use to kill themselves. If it gets so bad that they are determined to kill themselves, any method most probably will be used.
9 posted on
11/11/2013 3:06:49 AM PST by
Lockbar
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Isn't 1993, or there abouts, the time that the concealed carry movement started? Or am I off here?
10 posted on
11/11/2013 3:32:32 AM PST by
D Rider
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13 posted on
11/11/2013 5:40:21 AM PST by
CPT Clay
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14 posted on
11/11/2013 6:35:14 AM PST by
Buffalo Head
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They’ve been harping on the increase in gun violence in PG-13 movies, of late. Too few real murders, I guess.
17 posted on
11/11/2013 2:51:50 PM PST by
gundog
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